Ignore us? Just try. Why punk’s riot grrrls will never go quietly
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For then-teenaged punk guitarist, Sarah Blaby, landing her first live gig with the band Hecate as the support for Melbourne indie heroes The Dirty Three meant starting at the top.
As a student of Collingwood’s Rock’n’Roll High School, Melbourne’s fabled launching pad for girls keen to hone their rock credentials and technical skills and grab their slice of Australia’s pumping ’90s live scene, that kind of entry carried heavy promise of things to come.
But there also appear to be other, more subtle, factors at work.
One is that a media stereotype has developed about Victoria’s COVID response. The stereotype is that the government is incompetent in the way it handles the pandemic. Initial failures in hotel quarantine and contact-tracing have tainted perceptions of the entire government response, regardless of the improvements that have since been made. The fact the most recent outbreak occurred as a result of a hotel quarantine breach in South Australia was conveniently ignored by some media outlets.
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Media stereotypes are generally founded on fact, and initially there were plenty of facts to support this one, as the hotel quarantine inquiry report showed.
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Many people kept their heads down in 2020, but Ellie Bouhadana had her busiest year ever. When the pandemic put an end to her shifts at Balaclava s now-closed Ilona Staller, the self-taught chef started a pasta delivery business on Instagram. I got my home kitchen council-approved and was making hundreds of portions of pasta by hand, she says. I started delivering to 20 or so people, then it got much bigger and I was suddenly delivering 160 portions every Sunday.
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